Brigham Young University has a talking-listening computer. Capable of limited conversation, it will be able to register students by telephone. Programs have also been developed for use of the computer in public schools as an aid to teachers. (Author/MLF)

In Boone, North Carolina, Watauga High School has developed an alternative schedule that blends traditional and block schedules. This composite schedule originated in the late 1990s when their faculty members and administrators were struggling to determine if the school should change to a full block schedule. The board of education encouraged…

The University of Akron scheduling office has developed a computer-generated report that assists in class scheduling and room assignment functions, provides a historical record of room use, and can be used as a reporting and research tool for planning. This article outlines the processing flow and computer file. (JT)

At the University of Iowa, a project utilizing pre-admissions information about students has a potential for future recruitment of students. (PG)

Described an attempt to overcome the depersonalization of students by schools with the presentation of a plan to give more individual attention to registering students. (Author/RK)

A central computer stores the current scholastic and medical histories of more than 400,000 migrant children; Youngstown State University in Ohio registers students by computer; and a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program in Wisconsin helps people learn prerequisite knowledge for a trade or occupation. (MLF)

PASS produces student schedules. This manual offers an operational record of the PASS system, and describes its structure within the total registration process. The primary goals of PASS, a "choice-course" system, are to satisfy student program requirements and equally distribute class load through the master schedule from a total…

This report summarizes statistics on application and registration patterns first-year places in the Ontario universities in 1973. Following a summary of system totals, emphasis is placed on applications; registrations and yield ratios; applicants' choice preferences-universities; applicants' choice preferences-programmes; regular applicants'…

This report provides information from a survey of Minnesota postsecondary educational institutions relating to interinstitutional cooperative activities and programs. Minnesota cooperative programs are identified as voluntary activities of postsecondary institutions to provide additional, more qualitative, or more economical educational…

This report is divided into two parts: headcount enrollment, and degrees granted at the institutions of higher education in New York. Each section contains a summary table for each type of institution followed by a table of statistics for each institution within that type. Summaries of statistics for all institutions of the State University of New…

This document presents the enrollment figures for the institutions of higher education in Florida in the fall of 1971. The data are arranged in several categories: (1) statewide enrollment; (2) enrollment by institutions; (3) first time in college enrollment; (4) graduate student enrollment; and (4) trends and new developments in Florida higher…

A technique for examining the financial attributes of one common form of interinstitutional cooperation--cross-registration--is proposed. Four approaches are identified dealing with tuition, cost of instruction, cost avoidance, and course enrichment, and methods for assessing course enrichment are detailed. (LBH)

Describes a plan of action developed at an Illinois high school that involved staff in communicating needed improvement in curricular programs. (MD)

To complement an online registration program, Boston College has students who are appointed to the position of freshman registration advisor. The advisors work from mid-May through orientation weekend. Freshmen welcome the opportunity to talk to other students about courses, instructors, work load and major requirements. (MLW)

Surveyed 99 California community colleges to examine placement and assessment practices. Results indicated that most college registration programs involve counseling, orientation programs, and the use of computers. Assessment for English placement was ranked as the most important. Overall, there was a great diversity in practices, standards, and…